Starting from Romania’s economy position on the global competitiveness scale (on which Romania dropped by ten places in the last year), the agri-food sector being an important economic driving factor of the economy, the paper attempts to identify certain sets of macroeconomic variables...

The paper attempts to bring to public debate certain asymmetrical evolutions present in the complicated and difficult process of command economy transformation into a functional market economy, with a special focus on Romania’s agri-food sector. One of the economic phenomena acting as a...

The paper starts from the theoretical premise that the business environment of the operators from the agri-food economy is, greater influenced by the behaviour of certain essential macro-economic variables of the market economies. For this purpose, our methodological approach investigates the...

The effects of European integration upon the support to economic and social development in the EU Member States, upon the convergence process and bridging up the gaps between the Member States represents a field of particular interest, both for researchers and for practioners. In Romania, the...

The paper presents the main modalities and solutions by which agriculture and rural development can represent factors of economic-financial crisis shock attenuation and resuming economic growth. It is without doubt that the main modality to increase agriculture contribution to the general...

The methodological opening necessary to approach the economic convergence was based on a series of recent empirical studies, both at national level, in a European context and at the level of the agri-food sector, compared to overall Romanian economy. The competitiveness, which generates...